1-1     By:  McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Ambrister)          H.B. No. 2597
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to emissions from certain hospital or medical
 1-9     disinfectants.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
1-12     Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0201 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 382.0201.  PROHIBITION ON COMMISSION RULE RELATING TO
1-14     EMISSIONS FROM CERTAIN HOSPITAL OR MEDICAL DISINFECTANTS.  (a)  In
1-15     this section, "hospital or medical disinfectant" means an
1-16     antimicrobial product that is registered with and meets the
1-17     performance standards of the United States Environmental Protection
1-18     Agency under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
1-19     Act (7 U.S.C. Sections 136, 136a).
1-20           (b)  Except as specifically required to comply with federal
1-21     law or regulation, the commission may not adopt a rule that lessens
1-22     the efficacy of a hospital or medical disinfectant in killing or
1-23     inactivating agents of an infectious disease, including a rule
1-24     restricting volatile organic compound content of or emissions from
1-25     the disinfectant.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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